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segfaltnh··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
They're talking about art and you're bringing it back to capital. I think this is very telling of our time.
segfaltnh··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
The idea the LLMs would work in bytecode kind of ignores why they are good at higher level code, IMO. Bytecode would fill and overflow context so fast and locality of reasoning is much harder.
segfaltnh··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
But you've really just described 90% of business. Business helping businesses do business with other business.

The end result of it all does eventually touch people, though.

segfaltnh··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
That occurred to me when the author of the article was impressed with how well GPT-6 could reproduce zstd. Like hiw many of the trillions of parameters are just pieces of zstd.
segfaltnh··on IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
Its a drop in the bucket for many businesses though.
segfaltnh··on AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware
Lol
segfaltnh··on LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
Are u ok?
segfaltnh··on Dots: Always-on agents
I think this may depend heavily on your status as a billionaire.
segfaltnh··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
I dont think you watched the talk.
segfaltnh··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
They didn't say it pays the bills. My guess is playing music, its the only other thing for me.
segfaltnh··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Oh wow, I forgot about this. That context is important. He's talking to an audience of adherents. There's something mildly fascist about that.
segfaltnh··on Small programming tricks
I have a shell function called "up" that finds a project root and jumps back to it (e.g. a dir containing something like .git)

Now I have these to complement - thanks!

segfaltnh··on Bad code is kudzu
THANK YOU! I couldn't figure out why this word was so familiar to me while reading the article.
segfaltnh··on Xanadu was waiting for agents
And funding them.
segfaltnh··on Xanadu was waiting for agents
This was my feeling trying to grok why I want or need Delta.
segfaltnh··on Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
One thing worth noting is just how load-bearing it all is. Great point!
segfaltnh··on Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year
Sure but even when it works it slower and less total than good policy. Of course, good policy is a rare bird, too.
segfaltnh··on O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
My favorite anti-spyware tool for Windows is Linux.
segfaltnh··on Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
I love the "IYKYK" as a kind of in joke among AI psychosis enjoyers.
segfaltnh··on Debian: Retiring from the Project (Vv221)
Can they both be important?
segfaltnh··on The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
Every time I see this take I remember the time my step father picked me up by my throat and body slammed me on the floor. I was 12. I've had tinnitus ever since. Children really do need protection from some parents. I'm glad you had a good upbringing, be well.
segfaltnh··on How we can reduce traffic congestion
I wasted a decade trying to live in single family homes. Now at 40 my wife and I are living in a small city in a condo and couldn't be happier. Neither of us enjoyed the workload of managing a SFH. Dont force yourself to stay if you aren't happy, you'll wish you moved sooner (I do).
segfaltnh··on Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study
Thing is, the model could have been built with employees, even lowly paid ones, but then it would have been pretty transparent that they were subsidizing the rates to take market share from licensed taxis. The indirection is a feature, not a bug. Have we learned anything? Probably not.
segfaltnh··on Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study
Not if the investors can get an IPO done because of their great "innovation", then the bag holders are 401ks, mostly.
segfaltnh··on More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals
No one ever thinks of the poor owners.
segfaltnh··on Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)
Scala has everything, and therefore nothing.
segfaltnh··on Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)
Thread local storage means all async tasks (goroutines) must run in the same thread. This isn't how tasks are actually scheduled. A request can fan out, or contention can move parts of the computation between threads, which is why context exists.

Furthermore in Go threads are spun up at process start, not at request time, so thread-local has a leak risk or cleanup cost. Contexts are all releasable after their processing ends.

I've grown to be a huge fan of Go for servers and context is one reason. That said, I agree with a lot of the critique and would love to see an in-language solution, but thread-local ain't it.

segfaltnh··on Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week
Docker has jumped the shark as a company, good thing the alternatives are maturing quickly. We've had pretty good (not perfect) success with the Colima project.
segfaltnh··on UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
Honest question as someone who prefers single payer but acknowledged it's not a silver bullet: how much of the costs are nurses and doctors vs. admin? It seems to me there's a lot of overhead in passing the bills around to get paid. I just had my appendix out last year and got billed 8 times by 8 different firms, each with payment portals, call centers, billing providers, etc. I assume there's a lot of inefficiency internally too.
segfaltnh··on UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
I feel people defend them by opposing any other approach to solving this. Politicians in particular say things like "preserving customer choice", which I think just means having the ability to select among all the terrible insurance companies who will treat you poorly.
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